LCSW CORE REVIEWS ALL ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Denial - ✔✔distorts reality and does not
acknowledge emotion
Example: an alcoholic attending
recovery but continues to drink
✔✔Projection - ✔✔places unacceptable feelings from the person feeling them
onto another person.
Ex: anxious person complaining
that someone else is anxious
Someone complaining that they nobody likes him yet doesn't
like himself or others
✔✔Introjection/internalization - ✔✔is the internalization of outside events or
characteristics
of other people. Refers to the process of taking it all in or swallowing it whole.
Ex: a victim uses identification with the aggressor's
behaviors to help protect himself
Putting on a seat belt before driving.
✔✔Intellectualization - ✔✔process by which content is separated from repressed affect
Ex: when someone speaks of their traumatic event like they
were reading a script
Ex: a person of sexual assault may use intellectualization
by researching factual PTSD criteria instead of addressing her emotional pain
in therapy.
✔✔Identification - ✔✔typically refers to the display of a particular
,characteristic of trait that has been absorbed into one's own personality.
Ex; following in the footsteps of your father's profession.
✔✔Displacement - ✔✔a defense mechanism in which affect is transferred from one
object to another
Compulsively eats lollipops
after quitting smoking
Compulsively washes hands after being shamed for
masturbating
Yelling at spouse because you cannot yell at your spouse
✔✔Piagets theory - ✔✔people actively construct higher levels of knowledge.
Disequilibrium- motivation for
cognitive development. Equilibirum- achieved thru assimilation and
accommodation which leads to adaptation
✔✔4 stages to Paiget theory - ✔✔Sensorimotor stage, Pre-operational Stage, Concrete
Operational Stage, Formal Operational Stage.
✔✔Sensorimotor stage - ✔✔From birth to age 2 infants learn three
achievements. Object permanence, causality, symbolic thought.
✔✔Object permanence - ✔✔at 8 months' child will recognize that object
exist even when out of sight
✔✔Causality - ✔✔at 10 months' child will recognize it can use
its hands to pick up a toy
✔✔Symbolic thought - ✔✔at 18 months' child is learning language and uses language
symbols to think about actions before performing them
✔✔Preoperational Stage - ✔✔ages 2-7 the key characteristic is symbolic functioning
which allows a child 2 learn thru the use of mental images. Child will engage
in symbolic play
✔✔Precausal preasoning - ✔✔limits understanding of cause and effect and is
evidenced by
magical thinking.
✔✔Egocentrism - ✔✔limits perspective to take another person's perspective.
, Child believe he likes dolls because she likes dolls
✔✔Irreversibility - ✔✔child cannot recognize that an action can be done and
undone. A child does not recognize that a dish full of water is the same as it
is being poured into a beaker.
✔✔Concrete Operational Stage - ✔✔ages 7-11- child capable of performing operations
using
logic and abstract thinking.
✔✔Seriation - ✔✔child places block in order by height
✔✔Classification - ✔✔child sets block together by color.
✔✔Decentering - ✔✔ability to take into account multiple aspects of
problem and solve it.
✔✔Reversibility - ✔✔learning that actions can be reversed
✔✔Conservation - ✔✔learning that quantity and length of an item is unrelated to
arrangement and appearance.
✔✔Formal operational stage - ✔✔11 to adulthood- increase in thinking about
thinking return to egocentiricism. Is able to think more abstractly and
hypothetically
✔✔Trust vs Mistrust - ✔✔0- 18 months- developing trust between caregiver
and infant.
✔✔Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt - ✔✔18 months -3- toddler is learning their
independence such as walking
and exploring.
✔✔Initiative vs guilt - ✔✔3-6- learning to carry out goals without
infringing on others
✔✔Industry vs inferiority - ✔✔6-12- achieve a sense of competence by beginning
school and
learning to do things.
✔✔Identity vs role confusion - ✔✔12-18- learning new roles that will occupy as an adult
while
developing a sense of self and personal identity
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Denial - ✔✔distorts reality and does not
acknowledge emotion
Example: an alcoholic attending
recovery but continues to drink
✔✔Projection - ✔✔places unacceptable feelings from the person feeling them
onto another person.
Ex: anxious person complaining
that someone else is anxious
Someone complaining that they nobody likes him yet doesn't
like himself or others
✔✔Introjection/internalization - ✔✔is the internalization of outside events or
characteristics
of other people. Refers to the process of taking it all in or swallowing it whole.
Ex: a victim uses identification with the aggressor's
behaviors to help protect himself
Putting on a seat belt before driving.
✔✔Intellectualization - ✔✔process by which content is separated from repressed affect
Ex: when someone speaks of their traumatic event like they
were reading a script
Ex: a person of sexual assault may use intellectualization
by researching factual PTSD criteria instead of addressing her emotional pain
in therapy.
✔✔Identification - ✔✔typically refers to the display of a particular
,characteristic of trait that has been absorbed into one's own personality.
Ex; following in the footsteps of your father's profession.
✔✔Displacement - ✔✔a defense mechanism in which affect is transferred from one
object to another
Compulsively eats lollipops
after quitting smoking
Compulsively washes hands after being shamed for
masturbating
Yelling at spouse because you cannot yell at your spouse
✔✔Piagets theory - ✔✔people actively construct higher levels of knowledge.
Disequilibrium- motivation for
cognitive development. Equilibirum- achieved thru assimilation and
accommodation which leads to adaptation
✔✔4 stages to Paiget theory - ✔✔Sensorimotor stage, Pre-operational Stage, Concrete
Operational Stage, Formal Operational Stage.
✔✔Sensorimotor stage - ✔✔From birth to age 2 infants learn three
achievements. Object permanence, causality, symbolic thought.
✔✔Object permanence - ✔✔at 8 months' child will recognize that object
exist even when out of sight
✔✔Causality - ✔✔at 10 months' child will recognize it can use
its hands to pick up a toy
✔✔Symbolic thought - ✔✔at 18 months' child is learning language and uses language
symbols to think about actions before performing them
✔✔Preoperational Stage - ✔✔ages 2-7 the key characteristic is symbolic functioning
which allows a child 2 learn thru the use of mental images. Child will engage
in symbolic play
✔✔Precausal preasoning - ✔✔limits understanding of cause and effect and is
evidenced by
magical thinking.
✔✔Egocentrism - ✔✔limits perspective to take another person's perspective.
, Child believe he likes dolls because she likes dolls
✔✔Irreversibility - ✔✔child cannot recognize that an action can be done and
undone. A child does not recognize that a dish full of water is the same as it
is being poured into a beaker.
✔✔Concrete Operational Stage - ✔✔ages 7-11- child capable of performing operations
using
logic and abstract thinking.
✔✔Seriation - ✔✔child places block in order by height
✔✔Classification - ✔✔child sets block together by color.
✔✔Decentering - ✔✔ability to take into account multiple aspects of
problem and solve it.
✔✔Reversibility - ✔✔learning that actions can be reversed
✔✔Conservation - ✔✔learning that quantity and length of an item is unrelated to
arrangement and appearance.
✔✔Formal operational stage - ✔✔11 to adulthood- increase in thinking about
thinking return to egocentiricism. Is able to think more abstractly and
hypothetically
✔✔Trust vs Mistrust - ✔✔0- 18 months- developing trust between caregiver
and infant.
✔✔Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt - ✔✔18 months -3- toddler is learning their
independence such as walking
and exploring.
✔✔Initiative vs guilt - ✔✔3-6- learning to carry out goals without
infringing on others
✔✔Industry vs inferiority - ✔✔6-12- achieve a sense of competence by beginning
school and
learning to do things.
✔✔Identity vs role confusion - ✔✔12-18- learning new roles that will occupy as an adult
while
developing a sense of self and personal identity
